RE: "How do you explain the empty tomb?"
September 6, 2012 at 12:50 pm
(This post was last modified: September 6, 2012 at 1:26 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(September 6, 2012 at 12:44 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:No, see now youre engaging in discussion about the specific details of the matter.
Yep. Details, details, details. The bane of religious assholes throughout time. Sucks to be you.
Quote:Do you think it reasonable that a prominent religious Messiah figure would be buried in a tomb or not?
Now you have to make up your fucking mind, son. Was he a prominent religious messiah or some guy who ran afoul of the law and got his sorry ass nailed to a board? The jews, who were after all the originators of this messiah bullshit, seem to think he was just some scumbag.
"Why do you think he was buried in a tomb?" "Because he was a prominent religious figure!"
"Why are there no contemporary records of Jesus?" "Because he was a leader of yet another Jewish religious group in a backwaters state. Nobody would have noticed. Duh!"

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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).